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between circa 1860 and circa 1865date QS:P571,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902

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Camp scene, trestle bridge at Whiteside, Va

Camp scene, trestle bridge at Whiteside, Va — Unknown

Scope and content: Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad bridge over Running Water Creek (Whiteside), Tennessee. Rebuilt by the 59th Illinois Regiment, Union Army in 1863 after retreating Confederate Army destroyed the original bridge, at a cost of $95,000.00. At five hundred feet in length and nine

Photograph by Mathew Benjamin Brady